At the time, the comment was “it’s not obvious, more rationale needed”—i.e. I expressed sympathies for the proposal of transparency, but erred towards not doing it.
I think the main thing which has changed is that it’s a slightly more academic question now—we no longer have the resource to run something like this.
If, hypothetically, we did have the resource to run this again, would we default to asking funders to be transparent (rather than our previous default choice of not making this request)? I’m not sure—as I say, it’s a rather more academic question now.
2 years later, I stumbled onto this comment, and I’d be happy to know if your perspective about this has changed after the FTX crisis.
At the time, the comment was “it’s not obvious, more rationale needed”—i.e. I expressed sympathies for the proposal of transparency, but erred towards not doing it.
I think the main thing which has changed is that it’s a slightly more academic question now—we no longer have the resource to run something like this.
If, hypothetically, we did have the resource to run this again, would we default to asking funders to be transparent (rather than our previous default choice of not making this request)? I’m not sure—as I say, it’s a rather more academic question now.